Monday, 7 April 2008

The First Day

Sirens at Bullies End

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I am so excited so much more money and so much more responsibility. It will be good, I am sure. The women in the office seemed really busy so they didn't have time to look up and talk and stuff but time goes so much quicker when you are busy.

Got to go through the normal checks and paperwork - you know check that I am not a criminal and that I don't owe people lots of money and that I am a trust worthy and reliable person.

The man who interviewed me, he said he was in charge of the whole office, HPO or something like that - he didn't explain what that meant but I am sure I will understand the management structure once I get started. I can't hand my notice in or anything where I am working until all the paperwork is sorted but it won't be long. He said, Mike his name was, Mike Shannon-Bate. He looked like Jerry Springer with incredibly flopply hair and a posh english accent. Anyway he said they would need me to start asap. He actually said 'asap' which I thought was odd but posh people talk like that sometimes don't they?

He showed me around the office, management team, he called them 'the management team' were all on the second floor. The admin staff were based on the bottom floor and in the middle are the officers. He didn't introduce anyone specifically to me, he said I probably wouldn't remember their names anyway. (I'm quite good with names and faces but didn't like to contradict him - I can show him how good my memory is as soon as I start, well I can show him asap.

I filled in all the paperwork in the small office near the switchboard. I took all my qualifications as well but nobody seemed to interested in that. When I asked Mike he said that 'human resources sorts all that stuff as long as you can type and talk nicely etc etc'. He said 'etc etc'. Typical boss no understanding of how important paperwork is but maybe I can work up to help sort him out. It would be nice to be the bosses PA - to have that sort of power and know what is going on before anyone else. But that is just a pipe dream, or maybe healthy ambition at this stage. Just need to get started and learn the ropes as quickly as possible and maybe get on ok with the others.

It's gonna be so good.



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